conversations with the russian ambassador in december during the transition. three, what happened when sally yates came to the white house to meet with don mcgahn to warn him mike flynn was not being honest about communications with russia and might be compromised by the government of russia. number four, mueller asked for anything related to flynn subsequently getting fired by white house. although technically he was allowed to resign. five from the new york times, also reports that bob mueller has requested that all communications about the trump foreign policy team, controversial and nonconventional foreign policy team that trump announced during the campaign, asked about them. carter page, j.d. gordon, keith kellogg, george papadopoulos
up and standing up and defending the iraqi government. right? keeping iraq intact country, governed by a national government which we supported. well, here s the headline in the new york times right now about the new job paul manafort took right around the time the fbi raided his house in the russia investigation. manafort working on kurdish referendum, opposed by the united states. this is a referendum for the kurds to break off northern iraq from the rest of iraq to break up the national iraqi government that referendum scheduled for monday. the united states and other nations oppose it strongly because it fear it will break apart and destabilize iraq. where incidentally the united states has more than 5,000 troops serving right now. joining us now is ken vogel, the new york times reporter out of the d.c. bureau. i m sorry i m talking about you so much tonight. i hope it hasn t made you feel weird. no. thrilled to be here with you. good. i want to make sure we spell out the t
the ways we can look at that is to look at what he is doing now and operating that way. ken, you mentioned that the sort of toxicity factor of this kind of a job, forgive my inspector general ignorance but the united states government doesn t want the kurds the hold the referendum and break off and advising to not go ahead with this. is it legal for a u.s. private citizens to undermine u.s. stated foreign policy including by operating in foreign countries like this? i think what he would argue as he did with victor yanakovic by the way is that he was trying to bridge the gap of the position that was sort of outside of what was acceptable of u.s. foreign policy and the u.s. and the west. obviously with victor, that didn t work out. he tilted more towards moscow in the end and ended up fleeing and is now under the protection of vladimir putin.
associated press reported in late march that paul manafort and his russian military intelligence sidekick from the gru didn t just do business deals with putin linked oligarchs but manafort signed an annual contract with him that committed paul manafort to work around the world to promote the interests of vladimir putin s government. in russia. according to the ap, that work started in 2006, the contract said to pay $10 million annually. incidentally, that reporting from the ap said that 2006 is when it started, didn t say when it ended. so that was march, from associated press. that was jeff horowitz and chad day were the reporters on that piece. following month in june, the washington post again, flushing out that reporting that paul manafort had kept meeting during
80% of those houses were flattened, completely lost. so it s going to take a while to restore, come back to normality, but we re really trusting god and trust in all our friends getting calls from all over. and support and certainly the governor has requested that president trump signs a an emergency disaster for puerto rico and that should allow some federal assets. we have an aircraft carrier that was in guantanamo with 30 search and rescue helicopters on the way. we re getting great support from the government. luis rivera marin in san juan under difficult circumstances. thanks for talking to us, please keep us apprised.